As children play, without to-morrow,

Without Yesterday.

Agnes Robinson

DECEMBER SECOND

Shall those smiles be called

Feelers of love, put forth as if to explore

This untried world?

Wordsworth

DECEMBER THIRD

When children are playing alone on the green,

In comes the playmate that never was seen.

Robert Louis Stevenson

DECEMBER FOURTH

Respect childhood and do not hastily judge of it,

either for good or evil.

Rosseau

DECEMBER FIFTH

What does little baby say,

In her bed at peep of day?

Baby says, like little birdie,

Let me rise and fly away.

Baby sleep a little longer,

Till the little limbs are stronger,

If she sleeps a little longer

Baby too, shall fly away.

Tennyson

DECEMBER SIXTH